Virtual Girl - science fiction novel by Amy Thomson
Put into the young body of a female android robot Maggie escapes from her licentious creator Arnold to know who she really is. She finds herself in a peculiar world where the rich live in nice houses of marble and glass and the poor live like vagrants. Maggie takes up with some tramps, and rides around the country escaping her creator. The author Amy Thomson takes her android Maggie to some unexpected and strange places, turning the tale of a young girl finding herself into something really original.
Reviews:
Really a good novel about what it is like to be a real sentient being. The main character has to learn to survive in the world flooded by information. If you are interested in artificial intelligence and pursuit/suspense genre I will certainly like this book.
I have read the book and I fell in love with it immediately. The novel is amazing, and highly recommended to anyone who likes good science fiction stories.
I think the book is somewhat dry. But the beginning is interesting and realistic.
Maggie is a sentient android being, a product of a virtual program that is illegal in the future. Her creator scientist Arnold and Maggie were separated after an incident and Maggie was forced to think for herself and find out what it is to be a real sentient being.
The novel is a fun, light read.
Surely there is a nice twist in the novel's plot. I love this book.
In the very beginning, programmer Arnold creates Maggie. She emerges from the computer virtual reality program. Her creator Arnold gives Maggie a body, a human-like mind and self-consciousness.
The book is a very emotional and personal story about what it's like to be a real person not even being a human.
Virtual Girl is a really engaging story of the evolution of an artificial mind who accidentally gets independence. The future world is pictured very nice. I think the ending is a bit of a letdown in which Maggie does not get a full understanding of all that she could be.
Virtual Girl like many other science fiction stories is an explanation of what it's like to be a human being done from the outside.
Fiction story of an android robot in a nice girl body showing how she goes to human self-awareness.
